Western Canadian Premiere. Magali Simard (TIFF) writes: “One of the boldest and sexiest dramas of the year, April Mullen’s ‘Below her mouth’ tells the story of an unexpected romance between two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.” We would like to add the words ‘most courageous’ to that sentence.

Jasmine (Natalie Krill – ‘Remember’) is a successful fashion editor living with her fiancé. On a night out with her best friend, she meets Dallas (Erika Linder, a Swedish fashion model in real life), who owns her own roofing company and is recently out of a relationship. Jasmine is taken by surprise when Dallas confidently hits on her; she turns Dallas down, but can’t get her out of her head.

Stephanie Fabrizi’s screenplay powerfully explores what happens when two women fall hard for each other. Shot with an entirely female crew, ‘Below her mouth’ smashes all kinds of ‘rules’. Director, April Mullen (‘Gravytrain’ and ‘Rock, paper, Scissors : The Way of the Tosser’) is an EIFF alumni and we are so proud to welcome her back for an audience Q&A following this screening.

Coming off the Toronto Film Festival premiere of her film Below The Mouth, writer-director April Mullen has signed with Verve. Below Her Mouth is described as a relentless love story shot entirely by an all-female crew.

Mullen was also honored during the TIFF Birks Diamond Tribute to women in film. Her previous features include 88 and Dead Before Dawn 3D. With Tim Doiron, Mullen co-founded the independent production company Wango Films. Doiron also is signing with Verve.

Both are doing a lot of television along with the features. She shot an episode of Killjoys, wrapped a two-episode block of Aftermath, and is prepping a two-episode block of Bellevue for CBC. Doiron is a supervising producer and writer on Real Detective.

Mullen continues to be managed by Nicholas Bogner at Affirmative Entertainment and represented by Ben Silverman at Integral Artists.

Premiering at TIFF, “Below her mouth” is helmed by Canadian filmmaker April Mullen (88, Dead before dawn), and boasts itself as one of the first Canadian film productions to have an all-female production crew.